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主序星前质量吸积速率的光度测定。II。小麦哲伦云中的NGC346

Photometric determination of the mass accretion rates of pre-main sequence stars. II. NGC346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Guido De Marchi, Nino Panagia, Martino Romaniello, Elena Sabbi, Marco Sirianni, Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni, Scilla Degl'Innocenti

摘要:

[摘要]我们研究了小麦哲伦星云NGC 346星团中恒星星族的性质,使用一种新的自洽方法,使我们能够可靠地识别正在进行质量吸积的前主序(PMS)天体,无论它们的年龄如何。该方法不需要光谱学,并结合了宽带V和I测光与窄带Halpha成像,以识别所有具有过量Halpha发射的恒星,并推导出所有恒星的吸积光度Lacc和质量吸积速率Macc。将这种方法应用于现有的NGC 346场的HST/ACS测光,使我们能够识别和研究680颗真正的PMS星,质量从~0.4到~4 Msolar,年龄从~1到~30 Myr。这是第一项研究揭示,除了年轻的PMS恒星群体(约100万年),在这个领域也有一个年龄较大的PMS天体群体,平均年龄约为2000万年。我们为它们提供了准确的物理参数。我们研究了质量吸积率随恒星参数的演化,发现logMacc ~-0.6Logt + Logm + c,其中t是恒星的年龄,m是质量,c是金属丰度较低时较高的量。我们发现的高质量吸积率表明,相当一部分恒星质量是在PMS阶段吸积的,PMS演化模型不考虑这种影响,将系统地低估了真实的年龄与观测相比。

英文摘要:

[Abridged] We have studied the properties of the stellar populations in the field of the NGC346 cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, using a novel self-consistent method that allows us to reliably identify pre-main sequence (PMS) objects actively undergoing mass accretion, regardless of their age. The method does not require spectroscopy and combines broad-band V and I photometry with narrow-band Halpha imaging to identify all stars with excess Halpha emission and derive the accretion luminosity Lacc and mass accretion rate Macc for all of them. The application of this method to existing HST/ACS photometry of the NGC346 field has allowed us to identify and study 680 bona-fide PMS stars with masses from ~0.4 to ~4 Msolar and ages in the range from ~1 to ~30 Myr. This is the first study to reveal that, besides a young population of PMS stars (~ 1 Myr old), in this field there is also an older population of PMS objects with a median age of ~20 Myr. We provide for all of them accurate physical parameters. We study the evolution of the mass accretion rate as a function of stellar parameters and find that logMacc ~ -0.6 Log t + Log m + c, where t is the age of the star, m its mass and c a quantity that is higher at lower metallicity. The high mass accretion rates that we find suggest that a considerable fraction of the stellar mass is accreted during the PMS phase and that PMS evolutionary models that do not account for this effect will systematically underestimate the true age when compared with the observations.

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